1982 550 LTD #2 cylinder issue

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Old Man Rock, I think, has a thread floating around somewhere about the color tune.

Yeah, he helped me out quite a bit already with it when I was deciding to buy it or not.

I'll have to wait til tomorrow night to try the colortune on my 750 and a few more weeks for the 550. (the 550 is at my parents place because my wife and myself are inbetween a job change/house purchase/living w/ the inlaws )

apbling wrote:

Also, I was looking at the spark plugs... They all look kinda rich. Odd thing is some of the electrodes have a yellowish substance on them...kinda crusty crap. Any ideas?


loudhva wrote:
Sounds like some foreign material other than gasoline. Maybe carb cleaner was burning in there? Haven't really seen that before.

Can you post a photo?

Yellow ?? Lead ????

<enter epic cursing and swearing here, duration 30 min>

ok, so I think I figured out my issue. And caused another one.

SO, I had my carbs off already and decided to try and polish up my slides and the carb bodies because they weren't sliding as nicely because of my lemon juice bath. All was going well until I noticed to matter which slide I put into #2, it would get stuck when the needle was fully seated. I did some investigating and finally noticed that the little pipe or fitting or jet or whatever you call the piece that needle seals with looked different than the others. It was taller and had a rounded edge to it, while the others were flat topped.

I then realized this was the "good" carb I sent to the mechanic with the "bad" carb that had a partial plugged pilot circuit! (to use as a reference) So, it all comes together now... My WOT throttle issues showed up AFTER I got the carbs back from this guy. So, I tried to lightly tap that fitting out. Well, it came out and sure enough, it was in upside down! Problem is, either he or myself cracked the GD carb body where this fitting sits...so I am SOL now.

I'm thinking this may solve my WOT issues (at least it can't make it worse!). The bottom part of this part seals on the needle, and it it being upside down, it wouldn't let go of the needle because the needle was rammed so far into it. It seems like it would actually make the carb run leaner this way, but it seems too coincidental that my issues showed up when I got my carbs back from him.

SO, if anyone has a lead on some TK22's, please let me know. I need at least a #2 body or I'd be interested in the whole rack for parts too.

not sure why he would even take this piece out...not like it was plugged, you can fit a fricken small phillips screwdriver through the thing...

I couldn't find the part on the parts diagramg, but here is the part on ebay:

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/KAWASAKI-KZ550-K...fPartsQ5fAccessories

I would try and see if you can get another rack. Changing out one carb on the rack is a pain and may require seals etc that do not come in the rebuild kits... unless you already had it apart and the seals are ok.

There's like 4 sets on the Ebay site, range $68-150, also every other piece/ carb bodies/ etc.

Yeah, I know they are available, but don't want to pay an arm and leg. There is a couple local salvage yards I might try and hit up too.

apbling wrote:

...cracked the GD carb body where this fitting sits....

How severe is the crack? Pics?

Thinking possibly serviceable despite crack.

JBWeld?

Good Fortune!

cracks as in crater shaped hole around the hole the jet/fitting sits in. I thought about that, but I don't think that will work.